Maria Kurenko
Maria Mikhailovna Kurenko-Gonzowa , Russian Мария Михайловна Куренко-Гонцова (born January 2 . Jul / 14. January 1890 greg. In Tomsk ; † 17th May 1980 in New York ) was a Russian opera singer (soprano).
Life
Kurenko studied singing with Umberto Masetti at the Moscow Conservatory . In 1914 she made her debut at the Kharkov Opera as Antonida in Glinka's opera A Life for the Tsar . She later performed at the Moscow Simin Opera . From 1918 to 1922 she was a soloist at the Bolshoi Theater , then for a year at the Ukrainian State Opera in Kiev. She had guest appearances in Nizhni Novgorod, Saratow and at the Latvian National Opera.
Kurenko lived in France from 1926. She has performed in Latvia, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Finland and Germany and has been a guest at opera houses in Los Angeles, Chicago, San Francisco, Boston, Washington, Philadelphia and at the Metropolitan Opera in New York. In the late 1920s she made a number of records on Columbia Records in New York.
Web links
- Maria Kurenko at Operissimo on the basis of the Great Singer Lexicon
- Forgotten Opera Singers - Maria Kurenko
- Maria Kurenko in the database of Find a Grave (English)
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| SURNAME | Kurenko, Maria |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Kurenko-Gonzova, Maria Mikhailovna (full name); Куренко-Гонцова, Мария Михайловна (Russian) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Russian opera singer (soprano) |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 14, 1890 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Tomsk |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 17, 1980 |
| Place of death | new York |